1. Cigar that cures cancer when smoked
2. Snow globe of site 19 that causes changes in the weather around the real site 19
3. Exit ramp on a turnpike somewhere that leads to the same spot on a certain day in the 1940's
4. Sandwitch that compels one to eat it, but bites appear out of the one that consumes it
5. Squirrel that claims to be Winston Churchill
6. Creature that eats shadows, if it eats someone's shadow that person never casts a shadow again.
7. Mysterious abandoned room at the center of the earth filled with weird knobs, switches and controlls
8. Nuclear bomb that rebuilds things when detonated
9. Abandoned building that seems to have once been part of the SCP but no one remembers it
1. Boring. It does the exact opposite of what it usually does. These types of SCPs are almost never pulled off well unless they have some other unexpected anomaly.
2. I kind of like it, flesh it out a bit more. It needs something that will make MAKE the weather instead of just SHOW the weather, and make there be some weather that makes no sense to make it creepier, like an unknown liquid raining with no clouds in the sky.
3. Yes. That would be cool. More fleshing out (as with all prototype ideas), but headed out in the right direction.
4. Nothing that compels you to do something. It has to be of your own accord, making it want you to eat is cliche. Otherwise, it could be "the most delicious sandwich in the world" to all who decide to eat it, and appear not to feel pain after taking first bite, so they don't care. But the first move must be of the person's own accord, or forced by someone else (05 staff).
5. Kind of a WTF, but some of those SCPs are really good. Also, from here on out: Add "flesh it out" to all of them.
6. Hmm… Yes. I like it.
7. How would they get to that room? And what do they do?
8. Interesting… Don't know what to say about this one. Not much to criticize or praise.
#6 was just a stupid idea I had while brainstorming. Just wanted to write and interview where he keeps demanding to be let go so he can stop hitler, and when you ask him why he's a squirrel he claims he has no idea what your talking about lol
#7 I had the idea that a chamber was discovered in a deep mine that led to a kind of elevator, the elevator moves at obscene speeds and the room is confirmed to be center of the earth by it's weird gravity (one can easily walk on the top or bottom of the chamber) the control do nothing, as if they're not connected to anything
1. Would make a better joke SCP.
2. SO somebody or something who had knowledge of the foundation created this?
3. TIME TRAVEL WOOOOOPDY DOOOOO
4.*SANDWICH
5. Isn't Winston Churchill suppose to be a bull dog?
6. Could work, needs major revisions.
7. Really boring.
8. 1 and 8 just seem to be reverse things not very creative.
9. Clarify?
3. I know time travel seems played out but the angle I want to take with it is the Foundation having a vault somewhere with thousands of vehicles that they scooped up on that day in 1940 from all periods oh history until the turnpike was closed. The people in the cars may cease to exist or something,
9. Not all together sure where to go with it, just like the idea that an entire facility fell out of memory to the foundation and results of investigations revealing something horrible that they tried to stop when the building was abandoned, not sure how to flesh it out
Hoffman… this just really isn't good advice. The bits of it that are advice at least. Most of it is just spam. Please, wait for more experienced members to give their opinion on something before jumping onto a thread, and put more effort into your posts.
Basically, what Procyon was trying to say above (in part, anyway), is that advice is best when it is easily understood, which is to say, explained. For example, the word "SANDWICH" doesn't actually tell the guy with the ideas anything other than… well, you know, not much. Same thing with most all the other comments. Time travel can be good, and is not something that is dependent entirely on the base concept, but rather on the story which the article conveys. Winston Churchill being a bulldog would probably be less interesting than a squirrel, as it's much more predictable. That sort of thing. So, when you're doing critique of ideas, try to convey to the author why you think an idea would or wouldn't be workable as an article, rather than simply trying to drill through the list as quickly as possible. You don't have to address all the ideas, even. It's a matter of quality, not quantity.
All of these ideas need to be more thought out than they are. Mull them over yourself for a while before you send them the way of the community; then you can stand by one and watch it develop from seed to sapling.
1 & 8 are invert property scips. These aren't interesting when the sole premise is an object that behaves differently or opposite the way it's supposed to.
2, 4, & 6 are magical objects. Their effect is unoriginal. Make them original if you're going to go that way, although I'd say muck these ideas.
3 could be done, but it would take a degree of finesse to pull off, and would probably be very frustrating to write up. I'd put that one on the backburner until you've developed your writer-intuition.
5 is an animal claiming to be a human, which has been done quite a bit. I would not recommend doing this, since it would mean exploring a human personality, which is hard enough as it is, and then exploring it in a way that makes it novel.
I don't really know what you mean by 'part of the SCP' in 9, but whether it's a forgotten SCP, or part of the SCP Foundation, neither would be advisable CoAs.
A scip shouldn't be an object and an effect, it should tell a story. Or at least suggest one.
The difference becomes more obvious the more you've been around the site. One of my first attempts at an article was a hand-dryer that operated with hyper-efficacy, and dehydrated organic tissue to near-immolation. It was very well-written (which is where you need to start, too; if you can't write well, the core premise doesn't really matter), but it was a horrible article. Just a blow-dryer that dried too well. So the containment procedures was pretty much 'stay away from it', the description was pretty cut-and-dry, and the backstory was pretty obvious.
Compare that to the same effect given a more interesting article. Take the dehydratory effect, and give it a new home. Say, a blow-up doll instead of a blow dryer. And every time it's activated, the doll recites one of the Mother's lines from Pink Floyd's The Wall Album. Yeah. Eye-opener. And a lot more interesting. So we have an object that pretty much destroys the hands of people in a few seconds, with no story or hint at a story, or real eerie place in the Foundationverse beyond being an anomalous pseudo-weapon, and a RealDoll sexually crippling young men and whispering 'Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you, Mama won't let anyone dirty get through.' One of these will receive at least some upvotes.
So take these kernels of ideas and think them over, adding and plucking ideas and clauses from them until you find something interesting. Think abstractly, weirdly, until you find something you like. And then explore them rationally and expound.
Of course, don't use the Real Doll, because that's mine.
Edit: Not to suggest that what you write has to be scary or creepy to be on the site. Interesting above all else. Actually, just interesting. If it's interesting, do your thing however you will.
#1: Cigar that cures cancer — no. This is not a good idea. It's just a boring anomalous reversal: "something what does the reverse of what it normally does". (It would also be a very bad joke SCP idea, despite the odd suggestion given above.)
#2: OTT snowglobe is probably the worst idea here. It's not interesting and a very obvious idea.
#3: Meh. Could work with a good angle. Not inherently interesting — the vault you mention above is good imagery, but not enough to make this work.
#4: This is not an interesting idea, and derivative of dozens of already existing articles.
#5: This is not an interesting idea, and also derivative of already existing articles with no new angle.
#6: This could be good, but as written it's just a 'wandering monster'. The concept could be compelling, but… would have to see a draft. It could easily be a very boring straightforward writeup.
#7: The way you write this, it sounds like that is literally all you have in mind for this. A mysterious room at the center of the Earth is a good idea, but you can't just have a mysterious room with mysterious dials and expect that to be entertaining enough on its own.
#8: This is the same bad concept as #1, but a "reverse nuclear bomb" is kinda compelling imagery. Depends how you write it.
#9: This is a really derivative idea. It would be cool for a basis for a tale or tales, but as an SCP, it's not very promising.